The Cabin

Australian actor Travis Fimmel forgoes bathing whenever he is shooting historical drama series Vikings on location in Ireland, because the lakeside cabin he stays in has no form of plumbing. The star is a big fan of the outdoors and considers himself incredibly lucky to film in such "magnificent" surroundings, but he admits he has one gripe about the accommodations provided.
He says, "(It's a) beautiful country, the landscape is just magnificent. I'm lucky... we shoot on a lake... and I get to live in a little cabin there and I love it. My goal this year is to get a restroom and a shower...
"I try to save it (showering) for work; I shower in my dressing room... There's a lake there, so when I'm brave, it's a very quick run down the lake, without thinking, jumping in and then running back (to his cabin) like a little girl."
However, Fimmel insists getting to work in Ireland has been a real dream come true.
He adds, "If you see how beautiful it is, it's just amazing. There's this beautiful lake, I go water skiing on there and I go fishing so it's... just tremendous. I get a boat to work sometimes."

Pierce Brosnan has shot a new alpine Kia Sorrento car ad, which will officially air during the Super Bowl telecast on Sunday (01Feb15). In the ad, the former James Bond star second-guesses his all-action commercial when he's actually just required to drive the car to a mountain cabin retreat.

Shannen Doherty has taken aim at her former Beverly Hills, 90210 castmate Jason Priestley over comments he made about the actress in his 2014 memoir, insisting his memory of events that went on behind the cameras may have been tainted by a 2002 car accident. Priestley went public with his thoughts and feelings about his former co-star in the book and opened up about her wild girl antics, but Doherty now claims he might be struggling to separate fact from fiction.
In a Sirius XM radio interview with Jenny Hutt, she maintains much of what Priestley wrote is false, adding, "I love Jason, but you know he had a car accident, a racing accident, and I think maybe parts of his memory got altered from that.
"Everybody changes. They have their own perception of the truth. His is definitely different than mine."
The car crash Doherty is referring to took place in 2002 during the Indy Racing Infiniti Pro Series at Kentucky Speedway, and left Priestley with a fractured spine and a serious head injury.
In his memoir, the actor revealed all about Doherty's bad behaviour, recalling a flight he took with the actress and writing, "I could not believe my ears at Shannen's very first words after she boarded. Her butt had barely hit her seat before she said loudly to the PR person, 'Really? A town car? You send a town car to take me to the airport, not a limo?' She sighed a very put-upon sigh. I laughed, as I couldn't really tell if Shannen was kidding or not.
"That was just the beginning. I looked on, becoming more uneasy by the minute as she began b**ching about the short notice and the food on board and the temperature in the cabin and everything else."
Addressing the drama in her interview, which aired on Friday evening (16Jan15), Doherty fired back, "Supposedly I wanted a limo, and I've always hated limos my entire life. I find them embarrassing and grotesque. I mean, there are things that would in no way happen. I didn't even go on that jet at that point in time."
She claims Priestley mistook her for "somebody else maybe from the show".

The Punisher star Thomas Jane is convinced his daughter is set for acting greatness after watching her perform in his new TV mini-series Texas Rising. Eleven-year-old Harlow, Jane's daughter from his marriage to Patricia Arquette, landed a role in the upcoming historical drama and wowed everyone with her acting abilities.
Her proud dad tells BlogTalkRadio.com, "She's great, she's really terrific. She's got the gene, whatever that gene is... I guess it's from her mum. We play a family of settlers who are kind of moving in as everybody else is moving out. We find this abandoned log cabin that's surrounded by Indians and we get attacked by them. We're kind of humble pioneers tooling around in a stagecoach.
"She was really terrific. She was running through a burning house and rescuing a puppy and all that stuff. I was amazed and the crew was like, 'Are you sure this is her first thing?' She was kind of uncanny.
"She must've absorbed it through some mechanism that we're not aware of yet. There's some kind of morphogenetic field out there where you can absorb experience from your parents somehow."

James Franco has snapped up the rights to turn writers Caleb Powell and David Shields' new book I Think You're Totally Wrong into a new film, starring the authors themselves. Franco has adapted the book, based on four days stay-at-home dad Powell and his former college professor spent talking about life, fatherhood and their art in a cabin retreat, and plans to appear in the film.
The movie, in which Powell and Shields will play themselves, is slated for release later this year (15). It is not clear if Franco will also be directing the project.

British actor James Corden caused a security scare at a London airport as Prince William and Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge returned from their first official trip to New York after mindlessly wandering into a blocked off area of the runway. The star, who features in new Disney movie musical Into The Woods, reveals he found himself sitting in the same first class cabin as the U.K. royals when he was flying home earlier this month (Dec14).
He says, "I don't normally fly first class on aeroplanes, I've never done it, but because I'm in a Disney film, that's what happens...
"So I'm in the plane, and I'm on the plane with William and Kate (Catherine) in the same cabin... My first thought was, 'If this plane goes down, no one mentions that I've died...!' It's just, 'They died... and 200 other people...'"
Corden claims he and one fellow male passenger were the only others in first class not travelling with the Duke and Duchess, so he was inadvertently led astray as he exited the plane upon arrival in London.
He explains, "I'm going off the plane, I'm listening to (music) in my headphones and I'm very happily wandering along. As I'm getting off the plane, this side door opens and the people in front of me go in through the door, and so I just go through the door and I'm going down these stairs and then I'm on the runway, on the tarmac, with all these cars and I'm thinking, 'Wow, Disney have really... looked after me on this trip...!'"
However, Corden soon discovered the waiting vehicles were not meant for him and he was flagged as a royal security risk.
He continues, "Then this arm goes (stops me) and (the bodyguard) goes, 'What are you doing?' I'm like (taking my headphones out), going, 'What?' and he went, 'What are you doing here?' And I just went, 'I'm in a Disney film. I'm the lead in it, I think it's probably... one of these cars are mine.' And he goes (speaks into a microphone in his sleeve), 'We've got a 526 down on the tarmac'. I go, 'No no, I'm not a 526, honestly, I'm not a 526. I don't know what a 526 is, but I'm not it.' He goes, 'Sir, you're gonna have to go back up the stairs and go back to the top."
Corden followed the instructions, but was stopped again by another bodyguard moments later.
He says, "I go back up the stairs (to the main airport terminal), and then this hand goes, (stops me again) and (a guard) goes, 'What are you doing in the stairwell?' (I said), 'I don't normally travel in first class and I got a bit confused...' and he goes (speaks into his sleeve mic), 'We've got a 526 in the stairwell.' I'm like, 'Honestly, I'm not a 526!'"
The plane drama has since convinced Corden to talk up his royal encounter by suggesting the trio "slept together".
He exclaims, "For all of that (drama), I can legitimately say that I've slept with the future king of England. There's no denying it; I slept with him. In fact, we all slept together! The three of us slept together one night, coming back from New York, it's no big deal, get over it!"

A pilot in Mexico has lost his job after he allowed singer Esmeralda Ugalde to sit in the captain's seat and take command of his aircraft during a recent flight. The 23-year-old sister of Latin Grammy winner Ana Barbara and her friend Samadhi Zandejas, 19, were passengers on board a Magnicharters flight between Cancun and Mexico City when they were invited to enter the cockpit and snap shots with the pilot.
One photo of herself at the helm of the airplane, which Ugalde shared with her Twitter.com followers, went viral and landed the captain in trouble after Magnicharters bosses caught sight of the image and launched an investigation.
The pilot has since been fired from his post.
Company spokesman Jorge Badia says, "We cannot allow a pilot to make this kind of mistake, it is just not allowed. Even if the autopilot was working it is not allowed to do something like this. We cannot even allow people to enter the cabin, even if they are actors or actresses.
"We are a serious company and we are deeply saddened about the fact that one of our staff behaved in this way. Flight law dictates visitors are not allowed to enter the cabin during the flight."

Reunited British rockers The Libertines have secured a new record deal for the release of their first new album in 11 years. The Don't Look Back into the Sun hitmakers returned to the stage after a four-year hiatus in June (14) for a string of comeback gigs, and singer Carl Barat previously revealed they wanted to head back into the studio to work on new material.
Eyeing a 2015 release for the follow up to their self-titled 2004 album, he said, "Next year, it has to be. I don't wanna just go on the road because then you'll get cabin fever and have an epic fallout.
"So yeah, I want to keep something fresh coming in. We just need to find the time."
The stars have now found a major label to back their forthcoming project after signing to Virgin EMI.
The group finalised the contracts on Ko Si Chang Island in Thailand, where bandmate Pete Doherty is currently undergoing treatment in a drug rehabilitation centre.
In a statement released by the band, Doherty writes, "I don't know what to say, I'm so happy. It was a beautiful day", while Barat adds, "After everything we have been through The Albion sails on course again, I couldn't be more excited."
The Libertines were previously signed to independent label Rough Trade.
They split in 2004 following a dispute between Barat and his drug-addled bandmate Doherty, but they reunited in 2010 for shows at the U.K.'s Reading and Leeds festivals before parting ways again.

Actress Gina Gershon headed back to the stage on Saturday (08Nov14) to star in a new tour of Stephen King and John Mellencamp's supernatural musical Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County. The Showgirls star has joined forces with Twilight actor Billy Burke to lead the cast of the latest version of the production, about two feuding brothers forced to spend time together in a haunted cabin.
Gershon and Burke took their first bow in Orono, Maine over the weekend, and will continue to perform to audiences in Toronto, Canada, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles, among other venues, until early December (14).
Stephen King's Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, which features music and lyrics written by Mellencamp and produced by T-Bone Burnett, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia in 2012 and concluded its first U.S. tour last year (13).
Gershon previously appeared in Broadway revivals of Bye Bye Birdie in 2009 and Boeing-Boeing in 2008.

Rocker Chris Martin and his rumoured new lover Jennifer Lawrence have been pictured together for the first time as they left a private plane in Los Angeles.
The Hunger Games actress was first linked to the Coldplay rocker in the summer (14) following his split from wife Gwyneth Paltrow in March (14). Neither star has responded publicly to the reports, but the speculation gathered pace when they were seen attending a dinner together in California earlier this month (Sep14).
Now it appears rumours of an unlikely romance between the two are true after they were pictured leaving a private jet in Los Angeles. In the images, Martin is seen smiling and chatting with a pal and a member of the cabin crew as Lawrence, clutching a single red rose, disembarks from the plane.
Lawrence split from British actor Nicholas Hoult in August (14).